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On the ground in ukraine. my colleague yalda hakim is in lviv in western ukraine. day ten of this conflict, and it seems to be intensifying. there was some hope this morning when the russian defence ministry announced that they would have a partial ceasefire and create a humanitarian corridor for the people who were stuck in the southern cities of mariupol and volnovakha. we spoke to the deputy mayor of mariupol, sergei 0rlov, who said to me that in fact the shelling and fighting continued there and the people hadn't received any kind of respite from the fighting. he called on people there to ...

Fighting all the people of ukraine. back to you. >> bill: thank you. we've been trying to get a gauge of different areas of the country and what you are hearing overnight. it is about to be nightfall where you are there. what happened through the night last night? were there air raid sirens? is lviv in the crosshairs yet or is it still to come? >> it is still to come. we hear the air raid sirens every night. you often don't hear impacts at the end of those air raid sirens. it is still up in the air as far as what the russians intend to do with the west of the country. some people speculate he ...

Celebrating her birthday, and she said, "our life is now this — where we are having celebrations "trying to continue some kind of normalcy in this life "that is now underground." so the video you're seeing is of that little girl's birthday party. yalda hakim in lviv. nearly 1,000 international students are trapped in a number of hostels in sumy, one of ukraine's conflict zones. they say they have nowhere to go, no food and no water and are fearing for their lives. they have sent a desperate plea to the indian government to help save them. let's just show you some of that video. translator: i...

Happened. this is the city circus ring. and the authorities have laid out mattresses and pillows. they thought that people could have a rest here, take a few moments before they carried on to be housed in hostels, student hostels and schools. but it hasn't been used. what's happened is the mayor of mariupol has said that the humanitarian corridor was impossible to set up because the russian forces carried on firing. they said it was far too dangerous for people to get in the evacuation buses and to try to drive to safety. he said that there are still negotiations going on between the russians ...

Yalda hakim is lviv in the west of ukraine — and has been meeting some of the young men who are having to pick up arms and fight. everyday we see more and more people arriving here in ukraine carrying whatever little possessions they can with their children and i spoke to a young man today he was about 20 years old. he said he had a from kyiv and he had driven his mother to the polish border and he said she didn't want to leave but she knew that she had to because things could get really bad and they do expect the situation here to get from bad to worse. he said he said goodbye to his mother...